Merchiston Castle View from South East
SC 544668
Description Merchiston Castle View from South East
Catalogue Number SC 544668
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 32965/7
Scope and Content Merchiston Castle, now part of Napier University, Colinton Road, Edinburgh Merchiston Castle, a medieval tower-house, once the home of the 16th-century mathematician and inventor of logarithms, John Napier, was leased by Merchiston Castle School in 1833. In 1930 the school moved to new premises in the grounds of Colinton House. This tower-house, now with a concrete dog-leg stair leading to the second-floor entrance, has rubble walls and a corbelled parapet with a turret on its west side. The tower, restored in 1961, now serves as the office of the Principal of the university. In 1828, Charles Chalmers founded a school for boys near Bristo Place. He moved to Merchiston Castle with 33 pupils in 1833 to establish Merchiston Castle School which, 'advanced in number and renown' and later moved to new premises at Colinton House. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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